Comic strips | Big Nate cartoonist Lincoln Peirce gave the term “long-running comic strip” a new meaning when he pieced together Big Nate strips drawn by schoolchildren to make a 3,920-foot-long comic. Peirce was featured on NBC’s Today when Guinness World Records certified that this was, indeed, the longest comic strip made by a team. [The Daily Cartoonist]

Creators | Grace Bello interviews cousins Jillian and Mariko Tamaki, creators of This One Summer, which follows two almost-teenage girls on vacation with their families. “The book is an anthropological study of adults from the perspective of these two kids,” Mariko said. “I think a lot of books about kids give them their own, separate, hermetically sealed world, especially books about teenagers.” [Publishers Weekly]

Creators | Ed Brisson talks about his IDW miniseries 24: Underground, which follows the doings of Jack Bauer between seasons of the television show 24. [Hero Complex]

Creators | Liz Ohanesian presents WonderCon Anaheim through the eyes of one of the participating artists: Shing Yin Khor, who draws comics and works in other media. [LA Weekly]

Creators | Dario Carrasco Jr. got his start as a comics artist working for Marvel from his native Philippines; now he lives in Canada and is working on his own stories about Filipino superheroes. Carrasco also runs Comics for a Cause, which raises money for people who are ill. [ABS-CBN]

Creators | Author Marc Tyler Nobleman interviews Ross MacDonald, the illustrator of his book Boys of Steel: The Creators of Superman. [Noblemania]

Manga | Joe McCulloch takes a look at the early manga Tank Tankuro, which gives a sense of what manga was like before Tezuka. [The Comics Journal]

Retailing | James Frazier, owner of Cyborg One in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was never satisfied by the comics shop of his youth, so he set out to create a more inclusive, customer-focused store. Now one of his greatest frustrations is not having enough space to accommodate his customers’ needs. [Bucks County Courier Times]